What does the naked dressing ban actually mean for the Cannes red carpet?

What a horror! Before the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, the great lady of the cinematographic windows made the unthinkable – he prohibited what many consider his bread and his butter: namely a naked vinaigrette on the red carpet. The festival’s dress code for its evening gala projections at the Grand Thétre Lumière – always a bit of mine field – has been updated this year, and now declares that “for reasons of decency, nudity is prohibited on the red carpet, as well as in any other field of the festival”. Shocked? Wait. He continues: “The bulky outfits, in particular those which have a large train, which hinder the appropriate flow of the circulation of guests and the seats complicated in the theater are not allowed. The festival welcoming the teams will be forced to prohibit access to the red carpet to anyone who does not respect these rules. ”

But what is the Croisette without its breathtaking trains, its sparkling giant tulle, its free-nulte fervor, I hear you cry. Well, we are about to discover it soon, while the 78th edition starts – but I, for my part, I am incredibly skeptical that the red carpet procedures will be so different this time. The fact is that many things are already discouraged, if not banished, on the red cane carpet – selfies on the theater steps to linger on the red carpet for too long – but the application of these rules is at best ad hoc. Kelly Rowland who, last year, became viral for having been precipitated on the red carpet by a security guard, before being suddenly surrounded on all fronts.

“I have a border, and I’m next to these limits, and that’s it,” she said later Associated Press of the incident. “And there were other women who attended this carpet which was not very like me, and they were not scolded or pushed or said to go down.” However, others who made during this edition of the festival, included the Dominican actor Massiel Taveras, the star of the K-Pop Yoona and the Ukrainian model Sawa Pontyjska, who was literally far from the photographers.

However, Bella Hadid, for example, has arrived take time On the red carpet – just like those considered by the festival as large stars, as well as models and guests affiliated with the main sponsors of Cannes, including Chopard, Kering and L’Oréal Paris. They will not be abused, certainly, but will they also have to respect this new dress code? I can perhaps see influencers dressed in enabling it being diverted from the red carpet, but it could surely never be the case for Bella, Kendall and Co?

Cannes has a very long history of appearance barely – there are red looks, which tells me that at least a few people will not respect these new guidelines – and how these regulations are implemented and on which, and if this turn of surprising events will (thrill) a new era of more conservative looks on Cannes, will be fascinating to see.

Before that, for the good time, we take a look at the 26 Red-Carte Festival the most risky to date, below.